Outsider Essay
An outsider is a person who has been exiled or excluded from society because they are
different in appearance, beliefs, background, behaviour, or mental health. Outsiders may
choose isolation but their victimisation is carried out by society. Romeril's Les Harding is
deliberately portrayed as one of society's innocent victims in contrast with Shakespeare's
murderous Lady Macbeth And John Donne's pathetic death. In John Romeril's surreal
comic tragedy "The Floating World" he uses a narrator to relate his thoughts about the
degeneration of Australian society to the audience, u…